What is Follow the Clucking Money?
City budgets shape nearly every aspect of daily life, yet they're often wrapped in confusing jargon and buried in lengthy documents.
Follow the Clucking Money is helping make municipal finance more understandable and accessible. We're exploring how cities across the country present budget information in clear, engaging ways.
Through workshops, community conversations, easy-to-understand materials, and interactive tools, we're helping residents build the knowledge and confidence to participate more meaningfully in conversations about Petaluma's future. When citizens and leaders share a common understanding of the city's finances, we can have better discussions—and make better decisions—together.
Tools
How does the City of Petaluma spend money, and where does it get that money? Eight Petaluma citizens from Petaluma Urban Chat set out to explore these questions.
Deep dive into our first published tool, the Budget Explorer here.
Workshops
Our Follow the Clucking Money series set out with a simple goal: to make the city budget more accessible. See a list of our workshops below. Explore the materials and recordings for each.
We’ll run a new workshop every quarter.
Your questions, answered
We collect your questions at each of our Follow the Clucking Money workshops and answer them as soon as we can.
You can find the current list of categorized questions and answers on the Google doc here.
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